Prof. Dr. Quan Zou is a Professor of Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He received his Ph.D. from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2009 and worked at Xiamen University and Tianjin University from 2009 to 2018. His research is in the areas of bioinformatics, machine learning and parallel computing. Now he is putting the focus on protein classification, genome assembly, annotation and functional analysis from next-generation sequencing data with parallel computing methods. Several related works have been published by Briefings in Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics, PLoS Computational Biology and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.